Faculty

Allyson Weiner-Sawyer, Studio Owner & Instructor

A lifelong dancer Ally has a Musical Theatre degree from Elmira. She is involved in dance in many ways in ...

Jessica Trout-Haney

Jessica Trout-Haney has taught tap at The Dance Collective since 2015. She received her B.A. and B.S. at the University ...

Teresa Urnezis, Ballet

Teresa Urnezis is an experienced ballet teacher with over 30 years of dedicated service in the field. She holds a ...

Michael Cusumano

Michael Cusumano grew up in Long Island New York. He began dancing at the age of 6. At the age ...

Ken Ard

Ken Ard has originated roles in some of the biggest hit shows in Broadway’s history. Two of which he holds ...

Jenn Sargent

Jenn Sargent grew up in New York City where she had the privilege of dancing with the Children’s Ballet Theater ...

Rachel Burcham

Rachel is a professional dancer, choreographer, and certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach passionate about holistic wellness through the arts. After ...

Hannah O’Neil

Hannah has danced for 18 years and found her way back to dance through The Dance Collective this past year! ...

Doreen Keith

Doreen Keith has been a dance instructor for over 35 years. She has taught ballet, tap, jazz & acrobatics. Her ...

Avery Lemire

Avery has been dancing for 13 years. She joined TDC in 2021 and has loved being apart of the TDC ...

Evie Cloud

From the time Evie started teaching she has fallen in love with it. Evie started dancing at the dance collective ...

Keelei Adams

Keelei has been a dancer since she was 4 years old. She has trained in numerous styles of dance over ...

Assistant Faculty

Camrynn Lockwood

Camrynn has been dancing for 9 years. She has competed in dance competitions since 2016, and has won first place ...

Quinn Chartier

Quinn joined TDC in 2019 and she has been dancing for around 5 years. She will be graduating from Hartford ...

Taylor Lau

Taylor started dancing in 2021, and enjoys the supportive community that the studio offers. Taylor loves getting the opportunity to ...

Lacey Whitcomb

Lacey has been dancing almost her whole life at TDC given she started at three years old. Lacey is currently ...

Danill Sjostrom

From the moment Danill arrived from Russia at age three to join his forever family, he wanted to dance. He ...
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